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A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Also Known As Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher
Born Amsterdam • Netherlands
Notable Works “Brabbeling” • “Sinnepoppen”
Notable Family Members daughter Anna Roemersdochter Visscher
Subjects Of Study Dutch language
Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman
Dutch statesman
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Cats, Jacob
Jacob Cats
Dutch author
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Philips van Marnix, Heer Van Sint Aldegonde
Dutch theologian
Anna Visscher
Dutch poet
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Hella S. Haasse
Dutch author
Nooteboom, Cees
Cees Nooteboom
Dutch author
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Dutch author
Bilderdijk, detail of an oil painting by C.H. Hodges; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Willem Bilderdijk
Dutch poet
Albert Verwey
Dutch poet
Betje Wolff, detail of an engraving by Lodewyk Gotlieb Portman after a drawing by Abraham Teerlink after a painting by Petrus Groenia.
Betje Wolff
Dutch author
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
Dutch statesman
Gerrit Achterberg
Dutch poet
Heinrich von Veldeke
Heinrich von Veldeke
German-Dutch poet
Frederik Willem van Eeden
Dutch author and physician
Willem Kloos
Dutch author
Martinus Nijhoff
Dutch poet
Edgar du Perron
Dutch writer and critic

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines